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10 Things You May Not Know About…Glenn Reynolds
Posted By katie allison granju
Welcome to the first installment in a new feature here at Knoxville Talks, in which I’ll be asking interesting folks the same 10 questions, and finding out a little bit more about who they are and what makes them tick.
First up is a “10 Things” with Glenn Reynolds, whom I once called “The Most Famous Knoxvillian You Never Heard Of”.
Glenn is an award-winning UT Law professor, a prolific author, and yes, the guy behind Instapundit.
He’s also married to blogger Dr. Helen.
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10 Things You May Not Know About…Glenn Reynolds
KAG: What’s the best kept secret in Knoxville?
GR: How the contract for the red-light cameras was let.
KAG: Describe your personal philosophy in one sentence.
GR: There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
KAG:What kind of car do you drive and why?
GR:A Toyota Highlander Hybrid. Great car, lots of room, great mileage.
KAG: If you were the DJ at my party, what would be the first five songs
you would play?
GR: “Moment of Truth” by BT; “Strangelove Addiction” by the Supreme Beings of Leisure;
“Trigger Hippie” by Morcheeba; “Disgraceland” by Dave Clarke w/Chicks on Speed
“Superluminal,” by Mobius Dick
KAG: What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done?
GR: Held my screaming 3-month-old daughter down so they could take x-rays
at Children’s Hospital.
KAG: What’s your favorite joke?
GR: unprintable
KAG: What’s your guilty pleasure?
GR: Vintage pulp science fiction.
KAG: What’s a talent few people know you have?
GR: I am an excellent cook.
KAG: What’s the last book you finished?
GR: Michael Yon’s “Moment of Truth in Iraq.”
KAG: If I handed you $1,000 to spend on something completely frivolous
today, what would you buy?
GR: A fisheye lens for my Nikon.
Apr 15th, 2008
How come there’s no comments yet?
Hmm. Going politically correct on the car. Must be the university connection. I wonder how people would feel about the Mazda RX-8?
I thought his greatest guilty pleasure would be blending puppies (according to Frank J.) but I guess he feels no guilt at all as he presses “puree”, just deep, heartfelt bliss.
glitchus? The puppies are sustenence; killing hobos is the guilty pleasure.
Well, it’s not as if the puppy blending is a secret. It’s quite well established as fact.
TC… heh.
If I’m not mistaken, he bought his hybrid to drive for max acceleration, not necessarily max fuel efficiency. That’s from a dim memory, though, so I may be wrong.
If memory serves me correctly, Glenn and his wife used to frequently come into the Baskin Robbins at which I worked 12 years ago. They always ordered frozen yogurt and were just about the nicest customers imaginable. They didn’t even try to order puppy milkshakes.
Yeah… but did they get that puppy-complimenting yogurt ‘to go’?
As a former student, I am almost certain that he frequently gave lectures after having done dozens of puppy shots before class. You could always smell a faint odor of puppy on his breath.
Hey, isn’t Baskin Robbins the purveyor of a product that smells like a wet dog? Now, it all makes sense.